Drama Flashcards
Drama
Performed by actors for an audience
Cast of characters
Performers
Act
Main divisions
Scene
Smaller divisions
Setting
Place and time EX: 5 friends in a action
Dialogue
Lines spoken between two or more peeps
Stage directions.
Directions telling characters how to speak or act:sound-lighting-props
Plot
Series of events EX: decide to seek help or wait
Exposition
Introduces characters and conflict
Rising action
Events lead to the climax
Climax
Turning point to conflict or highest point of no return
Resolution
How the conflict is or isn’t resolved
Figures of speech
Idiom or phrase that has a different meaning of individual words EX: you idiot i don’t really mean that
Point of view
Characters perspective explore there thoughts and feelings
Monologue
One speech one actor
Soliloquy
Character reveals thoughts and feelings
Aside
Comment made to audience not heard by the other characters
Dramatic irony
Audience knows
Verbal irony
Character says the opposite of what he or she really means
Theme
Title at the beginning of the play
Central message
Repeated phrases details or symbols to help identify the theme
Antiquated
Language used in past
Falling action
Part of plot that follows climax
Mood
State of mind or feeling
